Music of the Flute
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
"When Krishna plays the flute the whole world is filled with love. Rivers stop, stones are illumined, lotus flowers tremble; gazelles, cows, and birds are entranced."
Bhagavata-Purana
Music of the flute fills the first portion of Evening Music, with two morsels from Faure, played for us by Carol Wincenc on flute and Andras Schiff as her supporting partner on piano, and then a Telemann concerto for transverse flute, Reihhardt Goebel leading the Musica Antiqua Koln and Wilbert Hazelnut soloing on the flute. As a special Labor Day tribute, we bring you Paul Robeson singing “Joe Hill,” the famous commemoration of workers who stand up for their rights. A Schubert impromptu and Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro” lead us to Beethoven’s early Symphony No. 1, illuminated by Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
When Darius Mihaud was teaching at Mills College in California during World War II, he wanted to compose music expressing love of his homeland and his feelings about the war that would also be suitable for college and university students. “Suite Francaise,” a musical tour of Normandie, Bretagne, Ile de France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence, ensued. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio is brought to us on period instruments by the Atlantis Trio; the piano we hear was made in 1835 by Conrad Graf, from whom the Mendelssohn family purchased at least three pianos. And you won’t want to miss the dazzling intensity of pianist Kathryn Stott’s performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Piano Concerto, the composer himself conducting the Royal Philharmonic, which commissioned the work. Maxwell Davies wrote it with Stott in mind, and says that “much of the piano writing is related exactly to how she plays.”
Bhagavata-Purana
Music of the flute fills the first portion of Evening Music, with two morsels from Faure, played for us by Carol Wincenc on flute and Andras Schiff as her supporting partner on piano, and then a Telemann concerto for transverse flute, Reihhardt Goebel leading the Musica Antiqua Koln and Wilbert Hazelnut soloing on the flute. As a special Labor Day tribute, we bring you Paul Robeson singing “Joe Hill,” the famous commemoration of workers who stand up for their rights. A Schubert impromptu and Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro” lead us to Beethoven’s early Symphony No. 1, illuminated by Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
When Darius Mihaud was teaching at Mills College in California during World War II, he wanted to compose music expressing love of his homeland and his feelings about the war that would also be suitable for college and university students. “Suite Francaise,” a musical tour of Normandie, Bretagne, Ile de France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence, ensued. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio is brought to us on period instruments by the Atlantis Trio; the piano we hear was made in 1835 by Conrad Graf, from whom the Mendelssohn family purchased at least three pianos. And you won’t want to miss the dazzling intensity of pianist Kathryn Stott’s performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Piano Concerto, the composer himself conducting the Royal Philharmonic, which commissioned the work. Maxwell Davies wrote it with Stott in mind, and says that “much of the piano writing is related exactly to how she plays.”
